Recurring limitation: Camera feed lag in Android

Hello,

Currently in Android the Vuforia camera feed lags when any Android native dialog overlays the app and I think this should be reported officially by the Vuforia team.

This issue has been reported for more than 1 year and 1 month of silence from the Vuforia team, and there is no solution or workaround: https://developer.vuforia.com/forum/issues-and-bugs/camera-lags-android

With this the Vuforia team should report this explicitly as a known issue, because any AR app with Vuforia in Android 6 or older will have its camera feed and tracking lagging when an Android softkeyboard/notification/status bar/etc overlays the app.

Therefore, it is impossible to develop an app that requires user text/number input via soft keyboard, as the amount of lag in camera feed makes the tracking unusable.

I am creating this thread in the Unity forum to create more awareness as currently in the Vuforia's official forums there has been silence for a while.

 

Hello @henriqueranj

I responded in the thread you linked.

We have received no updates on the issue beyond the fix being present on devices running Android 7 or later. I'll post any updates we receive to that same thread.

I'll talk with the team about mentioning it in our known issues.

Thanks

 

Thank you @Vuforia-Strasza , I understand the issue is on Unity side as any other AR platform out there has this same issue.

I hope they contribute with you in a timely manner to get this fixed.

 

I'm right there with ya, this bug makes AR on android devices DoA.

 

@Vuforia-Strasza

This bug has been fixed for all Android versions with Unity 2017.3.1p4.

By looking at the changelog for this patch, I can only relate the following to this problem (https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases/2017.3.1p4):

XR: Improved background rendering performance in ARCore by eliminating an unnecessary OpenGL state reset.

Can we have an official clarification from the Vuforia support team on this fix?

 

@henriqueranj It appears to be fixed for all Android versions from my tests.